Shotgun Software rolls out integrated client review site
Free Shotgun 5.3 update lets users share assets securely with clients directly within the Shotgun browser.
Thursday, April 17th, 2014
Free Resources
Paint your crowd sims with Golaem Crowd 3.2
Maya crowd simulator adds option to control actor density and behaviour simply by painting on the ground.
Thursday, April 17th, 2014
Download Wave Deformer for Cinema 4D
Johannes Kollender's neat free plugin creates animated ocean waves from any polygonal surface.
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
Eye candy: Departures
Check out the Kickstarter campaign for ILM matte painter Jorik Dozy's atmospheric short.
Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
Find CG jobs from your phone with MGODI
Updated, now on Android: Free app from End User Event organisers matches artists to likely studios.
Friday, April 4th, 2014
Mindbomb Apps releases Gfx Hotkeys 4.0
Useful iOS reference app now lists keyboard shortcuts for 79 editing, 3D, compositing and tracking tools.
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
Red Giant Software unveils Magic Bullet Looks 2.5
Free GPU-accelerated update to colour-grading tool offers "up to 95%" speed boost on Windows.
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
AXYZ design releases an(i)ma 1.6
3ds Max and Cinema 4D crowd animation system gets new cloning tools and V-Ray 3.0 compatibility.
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
Marcus Nordenstam discusses Bifrost
Naiad's co-author turned Autodesk product manager tells us how Maya 2015's new fluid simulator will stir up FX artists' workflows
Monday, March 31st, 2014
Basefount Technology releases Miarmy 3.0
Maya crowd simulation system gets better support for deforming terrain - and option to render out in 3ds Max.
Monday, March 24th, 2014
Otoy releases OctaneRender 1.5
Updated: Renderer gets Alembic support and real-time animation scrubbing with motion blur. Neat.
Friday, March 21st, 2014
Autodesk announces its 2015 product releases
We assess the feature lists of the upcoming Maya, 3ds Max, Mudbox, MotionBuilder and Softimage 2015.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
OptiTrack debuts two new sub-$2,500 mocap cameras
GDC 2014: Prime 13 and Prime 13W offer 1.3MP resolution, 240fps capture and Ethernet connectivity.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2014